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By MARY THERESE BIEBEL mbiebel@timesleader.com
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alk to Colonel Timothy W. Foley, and he’ll tell you his old college roommate Michael Barone did him a huge favor more than 40 years ago by taking over his duties on a radio station’s music program. • “It required more than just saying ‘this piece is by thus and such,’ ” Foley said. “It required knowledge that I just didn’t have.”• Talk to Barone, and he’ll say Foley did him a great service, convincing him to come out of his shell.
“He was a brave kid and signed up immediately to do announcing on the campus radio (at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music),” Barone said. “I was much too timid for that, but he somehow managed to twist my arm and convince me to swallow my fear and get on the air.” The arrangement suited both men just fine. Foley, who grew up in Berwick, went on to a distinguished career as 26th director of “The President’s Own” Marine Band, and Barone, who grew up in Kingston, remained in the world of radio broadcasting, sharing his musical knowledge and what Foley calls his “wonderfully resonant speaking voice.” You can hear Barone on “Pipe Dreams,” a show devoted to organ music that is produced at Minnesota Public Radio. At 8 tonight in the Buckingham Performing Arts Center of Wyoming Seminary, the two long-time
What: A concert with the jazz ensemble and wind ensemble of Wyoming Seminary’s Performing Arts Institute When: 8 tonight Where: Buckingham Performing Arts Center, 201 N. Sprague Ave., Kingston With: Col. Timothy W. Foley as conductor and Michael Barone as narrator of ‘The Lincoln Portrait’ Admission: Free
friends will collaborate on a concert with the wind ensemble and jazz ensembleofthecollegepreparatory school’s Performing Arts Institute. Foley will direct the young musicians in several pieces, including Aaron Copland’s stirring “Lincoln Portrait,” which Barone will narrate, delivering quotes of the president’s own words, including pasSee LINCOLN, Page 4
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Col. Timothy W. Foley, a retired director of ‘The President’s Own’ Marine Band, conducts the Wyoming Seminary Performing Arts Institute’s wind and jazz ensembles during a rehearsal for tonight’s performance of ‘The Lincoln Portrait.’
Michael Barone narrates part of ‘The Lincoln Portrait’ while his longtime friend and former roommate Col. Timothy W. Foley conducts the Wyoming Seminary Performing Arts Institute’s wind and jazz ensembles. PAGE 3